WW1 Hull: facts and figures

Whilst much information about people's deaths was meticulously recorded, in general it wasn't pulled together in the way it has been collected here. The charts below present a unique insight into the facts and figures. Use them to show trends as no guarantee as to their exact accuracy is given. Additionally we are continuously updating the database and these charts are only a snapshot of the data at a specific moment in time.

Most common surnames of those who died:

Surname

Number

SMITH

130

BROWN

77

JOHNSON

72

ROBINSON

72

WILSON

71

HARRISON

61

TAYLOR

55

JACKSON

53

THOMPSON

52

WRIGHT

49

CLARK

41

HALL

39

WALKER

38

WATSON

32

RICHARDSON

31

GREEN

30

Most common first names of those who died:

First name

Number

WILLIAM

300

GEORGE

234

JOHN

219

THOMAS

206

ARTHUR

191

JAMES

189

JOHN WILLIAM

175

HARRY

173

WALTER

150

ALBERT

140

ERNEST

140

CHARLES

138

HAROLD

132

JOSEPH

119

ALFRED

116

ROBERT

113

The 10 most bloodiest battles of World War OneB

loodiest Battles of World War I e

Battle

Total Casualties

1. Hundred Day Offensive

1,855,369

2. Spring Offensive

1,539,715

3. Battle of the Somme

1,219,201

4. Battle of Verdun

976,000

5. Battle of Passchendaele

848,614

6. Serbian Campaign

633,500

7. First Battle of Marnes

483,000

8. Battle of Gallipoli

473,000

9. Battle of Arras

278,000

10. Battle of Tannenberg

182,000

List of WW1 Casualties

Civilian Deaths as a result of direct military action: 950,000

Civilian Deaths caused by disease and famine: 6 million

Country with the most military deaths: Germany (2.1 million)

Country with highest total death toll: Russia (3.8 million)

Highest Percentage of population killed: Serbia (16.11%)

250,000 British Soldiers were suffered a partial or full amputation as a result of fighting in the First World War.

List of Casualties in WWI

Countries

Total Mobilized

Killed / Died

Wounded

Prisoners and Missing

Total Casualties

Percent of Casualties

Allies

Russia

12,000,000

1,700,000

4,950,000

2,500,000

9,150,000

76.3%

France

8,410,000

1,357,800

4,266,000

537,000

6,160,800

73.3%

British Empire

8,904,467

908,371

2,090,212

191,652

3,190,235

35.8%

Italy

5,615,000

650,000

947,000

600,000

2,197,000

39.1%

United States

4,355,000

116,516

204,002

4,500

323,018

7.1%

Japan

800,00

300

907

3

1,210

0.2%

Romania

750,000

335,706

120,000

80,000

535,706

71.4%

Serbia

707,343

45,000

133,148

152,958

331,106

46.8%

Belgium

267,000

13,716

44,686

34,659

93,061

34.9%

Greece

230,000

5,000

21,000

1,000

17,000

11.7%

Portugal

100,000

7,222

13,751

12,318

33,291

33.3%

Montenegro

50,000

3,000

10,000

7,000

20,000

40.0%

Total

42,1888,810

5,152,115

12,831,004

4,121,090

22,104,209

52.3%

Central Powers

Germany

11,000,000

1,773,700

4,216,058

1,152,800

7,142,558

64.9%

Austria-Hungary

7,800,000

1,200,000

3,620,000

2,200,000

7,020,000

90.0%

Turkey

2,850,000

325,000

400,000

250,000

975,000

34.2%

Bulgaria

1,200,000

87,500

152,390

27,029

266,919

22.2%

Total

22,850,000

3,386,200

8,388,448

3,629,829

15,404,477

67.4%

Grand Total

65,038,810

8,538,315

21,219,452

7,750,919

37,508,686

57.6%

World War One in Numbers

SOLDIERS DIED: 9.7 million

SOLDIERS WOUNDED: 21.2 million

Prisoners of War and Missing Soldiers: 7.5 million

240 Men took six hours to build a 250 meter trench.

25,000 miles of trenches dug on the Western Front.

£100 million lent to Britain by America for the war.

2 Billion letters sent between British families and soldiers fighting.

9 million food parcels sent to prisoners of war by the British Red Cross.

627 Servicemen were awarded the Victoria Cross.

185,000 British Troops taken Prisoner.

1 million men shipped back to Britain due to serious illness.

240,000 British Soldiers had limbs amputated.

80,000 British soldiers suffered shell shock.

20,000 British soldiers suffered 'Trench Foot'

100,000 soldiers gassed in fighting.

6 weeks - life expectancy of a Junior Officer in the trenches

60,000 British Casualties on the the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 1st July 1916.

3,600 British soldiers killed per day in the five month Somme offensive

400 rounds per minute fired by a German machine gun.

150 yards - typical width of 'No-Man's' land.

2,000 British war cemetries on the old Western Front.

53 British villages suffered no war deaths. They were called 'Thankful Villages'

8.9 million British Troops deployed.

1 million men enlisted in the British Army by January 1915.

250,000 soldiers lied about their age to enlist in Britain.

1 in seven weeks spent by a British soldier on the front line.

2 weeks a year leave was given to soldiers in the British Army.

5p basic daily pay for soldiers.

16,000 Conscientious Objectors refused to fight.

11 German Spies were executed by Britsih authorities.

1.5 million Armenians were killed by Turkey's Ottoman Empire in genocide.

3.5 million standard Lee Enfield rifles were built in Britain.

5,000 Allied ships sunk by U-Boats.

190,000 mines laid in waters around Britain.

1 billion artillery shells fired on the Western Front.

1 tonne of explosives fired per square meter of Western Front territory.

812 tonnes of cordite produced per week in Gretna factory, Scotland.

160 tonnes of munitions found in the fields on the old Ypres front in 2012.

400 female factory workers died from over exposure to TNT explosives.

6,000 Belgium civilians killed in 1914 by the German army.

200,000 Belgian refugees came to Britain.

557 people killed by German Zeppelin raids.

3 million acres of farmland created in Britain to prevent famine.

1,000 Daily average caloric intake German adult civilians Jan 1918.

103. German airship and bomber raids on Great Britain.

675 Allied air raids on Germany

1.3 million Indian troops served in the war, including 100,000 Sikhs, 800,000 Hindu troops and 400,000 Muslims. 62,060 were killed in action. More than 1,000 of them lost their lives at Gallipoli and nearly 700,000 sepoys fought in Mesopotamia. 8 VC's were won by the Indian Army.

The outbreak of war in 1914 brought many new rules and regulations to Britain. The most important of these was the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA), passed on 8 August 1914 ‘for securing public safety’. DORA gave the government the power to prosecute anybody whose actions were deemed to ‘jeopardise the success of the operations of His Majesty’s forces or to assist the enemy’. This gave the act a very wide interpretation. It regulated virtually every aspect of the British home front and was expanded as the war went on. Here are a few of the surprising measures introduced by DORA - some of which still affect life in Britain today.

1. Whistling. Whistling for London taxis was banned in case it should be mistaken for an air raid warning.

2. Loitering. People were forbidden to loiter near bridges and tunnels or to light bonfires.

3. Clocks Go Forward. British Summer Time was instituted in May 1916 to maximise working hours in the day, particularly in agriculture.

4. Drinking. Claims that war production was being hampered by drunkenness led to pub opening times and alcohol strength being reduced. The ‘No treating order’ also made it an offence to buy drinks for others.

5. Drugs. Possession of cocaine or opium, other than by authorised professionals such as doctors, became a criminal offence.

6 Blackouts. A blackout was introduced in certain towns and cities to protect against air raids.

7. Press Censorship. Press censorship was introduced, severely limiting the reporting of war news. Many publications were also banned.

9. White Flour.Fines were issued for making white flour instead of wholewheat and for allowing rats to invade wheat stores. Further restrictions on food production eventually led to the introduction of rationing in 1918.

10. Foreign Nationals.DORA put restrictions on the movement of foreign nationals from enemy countries. The freedom of such ‘aliens’ was severely restricted, with many interned.